The only thing Ryan Murphy is better at than storytelling is deceiving. Which makes figuring out the details of his latest projects a real, well, project.

While the producer is usually extremely cagey about what lies ahead for his and Brad Falchuk’s FX anthology series “American Horror Story,” he has slowly, but surely, begun to drop more hints about Season 8 aka “Apocalypse.”

Though everything with Murphy could be a fake out or a misdirect, here are the few things about the next installment we are semi-positive are possibly true. Maybe.

At a pre-Emmy voting “for your consideration” panel in April, Murphy told the audience the season was set “18 months from today” — so Oct. 6, 2019, if he was to be taken literally. (Back in January he said it would be set 10 to 20 years in the future, but fine, still the future.)

Yes, the “AHS” queen is returning following her departure from the franchise after Season 4 aka “Freak Show” — despite the fact she’d previously said she was done with the series.

“I do have the great pleasure of letting you all know that, yes, she will be back,” Paulson told TheWrap during the TCA press tour earlier this month. “Jessica will be returning as Constance in an episode I’m going to direct.” Lange will guest star on Episode 6.

“AHS” fans started to clamor for a Lange comeback (even more than they usually do) when Murphy broke the news in June that the upcoming season would be the highly-teased mashup. Suspicions that the actress was returning reached a peak when Murphy announced that he had cast “Assassination of Gianni Versace” breakout star, Cody Fern, as an adult Michael Langdon.

Why? Because in “Murder House,” Michael was one of the two twins Vivien (Britton) died giving birth to after being raped by Tate (Peters). Tate’s mother, Constance, adopted his demonic offspring, who was last seen giggling as a toddler, covered in blood, after murdering his babysitter in the Season 1 finale.

Paulson will be playing three characters. In addition to reprising her role as the “Coven” headmistress Cordelia Goode and “Murder House” medium Billie Dean Howard, Paulson will also be introducing a new character named Venable.

Britton and McDermott are returning as “Murder House” couple Vivien and Ben Harmon, with Farmiga set to come back as both their daughter Violet, and her “Coven” character, teen witch Zoe.

Roberts, Sidibe, Rabe, Conroy and Nicks are all coming back as their “Coven” witches.

Alums who we currently know are playing all new parts include, Grossman (Coco St. Pierre Vanderbilt), Lourd (Mallory), Porter (Dinah Stevens) and Bates (Miss Meade).

8. The anthology series is going back to its roots

Unlike the realistic (well, as realistic as Murphy ever gets) “Cult,” the next installment will be “heightened,” Murphy said in April. “It’s not necessarily as real and grounded as the past season. We’re sort of getting back to ‘Asylum’ and ‘Coven.’ It’s that tone. That’s the tone of it,” he said, referencing Seasons 2 and 3, respectively.

"American Horror Story: Cult" isn't just about modern (fictional) cult leader Kai Anderson, played by series regular Evan Peters. It also referenced several (real) cult leaders in Episode 9, and Peters played them all in flashbacks. In fact, Peters has popped up as quite a few characters this season -- here's a gallery of all of them so far. Some spoilers if you haven't watched through the Oct. 31 episode.

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Kai Anderson

Starting with the election of Donald Trump, Kai has been executing an elaborate plan to gather followers and remake America as he sees fit. It started with a group of people dressed as clowns committing murders around his small Michigan town. Now, Kai is preparing to take the movement national, and learning some lessons from past cult leaders.

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Andy Warhol

Episode 7 of "American Horror Story: Cult" used extended flashbacks to tell a fictionalized account of Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol. Solanas' plan in the episode to encourage women to kill all men never really took off, and Warhol -- played by Peters -- eventually got the last laugh.

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Marshall Applewhite

The founder of the real Heaven's Gate cult and his followers believed their souls could evacuate Earth to meet a spaceship in the tail of the Hale-Bopp comet. Applewhite used the early Internet to gather followers and left a bunch of strange videos after he and 39 Heaven's Gate cultists committed suicide in 1997. In "American Horror Story: Cult," Peters plays Applewhite to recreate some of that video footage.

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David Koresh

Koresh and his followers, a real cult of former Branch Davidians, believed he was a prophet. As a cult leader, Koresh took multiple wives and he and his followers stockpiled weapons. That attracted the attention of the ATF, and its attempt to investigate the group's Waco, Texas, compound turned into a siege, and then a deadly raid and fire. In "American Horror Story: Cult," Peters' Koresh starts the fire that, in reality, helped to kill more than 80 of his followers.

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Jim Jones

Kai calls Jones "the Kanye of cult leaders." The real leader of Jonestown, a commune in Guyana, was responsible for the deaths of more than 900 of his followers after convincing them, or forcing them, to drink Kool-Aid mixed with cyanide. Peters portrays Jones in the story Kai tells on "American Horror Story: Cult," in which the leader really did rise from the dead to save his followers.

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Jesus Christ

Peters also has another role to play in Kai's version of the Jonestown Massacre. He appears as a low-rent Jesus, descending (on obvious wires) from the heavens to resurrect leader Jim Jones and help him save his people. It's telling that young Oz (Cooper Dodson) is the only one who calls BS on the story.

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Charles Manson

We haven't seen the notorious Manson Family leader on the show yet, but we know he's coming. Creator Ryan Murphy teased the Internet with a shot of Peters as Manson in October. It's a fair bet it'll be Peters' creepiest role on "American Horror Story: Cult," going by this image.

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Evan Peters keeps popping up as different cult leaders

"American Horror Story: Cult" isn't just about modern (fictional) cult leader Kai Anderson, played by series regular Evan Peters. It also referenced several (real) cult leaders in Episode 9, and Peters played them all in flashbacks. In fact, Peters has popped up as quite a few characters this season -- here's a gallery of all of them so far. Some spoilers if you haven't watched through the Oct. 31 episode.